COUNTERCOLUMN: All Your Bias Are Belong to Us

Sunday, September 30, 2007

The Counter-IED War

Really, when it comes to anything having to do with SIGINT and Electronic warfare, the less that's said, the more's the better.

It's not the public's business what we might be jamming or not jamming. But check out the whole article, because there's more to it than that, and it's definitely worth a read. (Unfortunately, it might be worth the read if you're a moojie, too).

My take on counterIED war: If you have to jam, you're already too late.

The best counter IED technique isn't jamming signals; it's the cordon-and-search raid on good intelligence.

I figure if we can make jammers we should be able to make 'inverse-jammers'. Instead of blocking or delaying a triggering signal, send out signals intended to prematurely trigger devices. Since we might be, I shall say no more.Glenmore

Obviously, because your prematurely fired IED will wreak havoc on the theoretically-innocent traffic in front of your convoy. Unless you can figure out a way to police a permanent buffer in front of convoys the length of your triggering radius, you're going to produce a truly horrifying civilian body count, moreso insomuch as random cars or delivery vans aren't hardened or armored like a humvee or MRAP.

How about fling drones early in the morning before traffic to clear the roads, or over the city to find the factories, or maybe catch them in transportation. I find it hard to believe that the only thing holding them back are body counts...at this stage in the war